I get translucent reminders and stuff in XP already. Am I missing something?
No, it's the usual Slashdot snarkyness towards Microsoft in any article. It is obligatory, and in this case they are now "finally catching up with apple" for some trivial eye candy aspect.
In other articles if MS comes out with something, they will be "copying" someone else, or they will be "finally being compatible with.", and so on. Of course, using the word "finally" would imply there's someone out there waiting in their basement holding their breath for this feature.
For some reason IPV4 was non-existant on all 4 Ethernet cards, but ipv6 worked. Tried everything, eventually enlisted the help of 2 friends for a total reinstall. But I had no precious data to backup. Ugh.
What is a link farm? is that one of those sites, no matter what obscure search term you put in, it's always the first site that comes up on google?
Then you visit that site, and find out there is absolutely nothing related to what you are searching for, but just ads for shitty domain hosting, links to links to other links for shopping, etc?
Its simple as that. Its "try before you buy". Don't like it? Return the game. Like it? Write down the name, return it, and go buy a retail copy of it. You can't lose!
There was a system like that, but you had to pay full retail price, but if you didn't like it for any reason, return it for full refund(more like deposit).
Ever get rooked into going to a website with perpetual Javascript pompts? I love those.
The only way out of them is to kill your browser process outright.
This is a prime opportunity for mozilla developers to do a slight tweak to the prompts. a "kill all javscript for the rest of this session" button, etc.
I saw some preview of the game in the context of the controversy.
Seeing it only wanted me to buy the game more, being a long time GTA fan. But, I'm going to wait until the reviews come in. I don't want another Getaway on my hands.
I can't wait either. I surely don't remember any advertising when I was using Google.
One fundamental problem is, popularity comes at a price. Your website is more popular, more bandwidth gets used. More bandwidth gets used, your hosting provider charges you more.
It's not so with TV shows. The costs are the same whether 8 people or 8 billion people watch it. Of course, if you have consistently low ratings, advertisers don't want to pay you for their ads.
If internet technologies get to the point where bandwidth is maybe at a flat fee(for outbound traffic), or something of the like, perhaps advertising won't be so promiment.
But as it stands now, advertising is getting to the point where it is overshadowing original content. Now only if we had more original content instead of the same AP news stories repeated over and over. Ah crap, I just realized what website i was on.:)
For just 5 megs a month you can adopt a Chinese blog. You will recieve letters, a digital camera picture and more from your sponsored blog. Your blog will recieve bandwidth, FTP access and encryption...
I went through the install menus, fiddled with the partitions, and after a bunch of text screens later, it was alive.
Then I easily got samba installed & running with the package manager. Yay. This failed previously when it was a debian box(none of the d/l sites worked).
Much to my amazement, sound worked! I copied a mp3 file off a windows share(that was effortless) and boom, it was playnig in xmms.
Then I tried to edit the samba config file, but it needed me to be root. Okay, let's just put in the root password I thought i put in(it did ask me for one, right? I guses not), nada. Darn.
Just looking at google's results, looks like I can sudo in, er, or something. Or if someone replies here. I was so used to using root when I was using fedora & debian.
Me likey unbuntu. No bullshit to get things going, and more importantly, first time I ever got sound working in Linux, and I didn't have to do jack.
Mind you, 99% of this server will just end up benig used for samba, but that's good enough for me. I would like to get it to broadcast to a shoutcast DNAS server, but couldn't find any plug-in to do it.
Maybe it's time to start up a photo business that doesn't care about copyrights.
Honestly, why would a photographer want copyrights on Ma & Pa Kettle's wedding photos? Is there a release form the couple has to sign off to the photographer for all images of THEM?
Maybe the photographer should be paying them for modeling, with a clause that they(wedding couple) get a copy for framing.
Or pony up the $ and just do it all yourself, have a neighbor kid take the photos and pay them an agreed-upon fee.
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If you want to see some older Dr. Who (wobbly scenery and all), then get a BitTorrent client and head on out to The Pirate Bay - there's some episodes floating around there. Be on the lookout for "The Genesis of the Daleks". Tom Baker is widely thought of as the best Doctor of the old series.
I bittorrented Genesis like 3 weeks ago(thanks to whoever ripped it), and it was better than I remembered. It had a very involved plot, a decent budget, and overall yes, one of the best Doctor Who stories ever.
It didn't wrap things up in 5 minutes like the new series, thankfully.
3. Window pane focus changes. This one I just don't understand. In 2k, if I open Windows Explorer in folder view, I can use the scroll wheel to scroll the pane that the mouse is over. In XP, I have to click the pane first to scroll. This probably doesn't affect many people but for those that it does, it is super annoying.
I remember back in Windows 3.1 with the Logitech mouse. You could use the scroll-wheel in ANY place with a scrollbar and it would work. Just like you said, no need to "click to focus". I miss that.
I do notice however in multiple instances of firefox, you can just hover & scroll(no clicking) and it scrolls just fine for you. Maybe it's an app-level quirk now? If so, I wish everyone would do it, but ultimately at an OS level a focus-agnostic scroll would be 100 times better.
Winamp's TV(still in beta IMO) is a miserable failure. 99% of the streams are unavailable. All slots filled, and that's usually stations running bittorrented TV shows.
The remaining 1% is community programming, like you see on the public cable channels nobody watches. Oh, and the porn advertisement streams. They figured out how to get pop-up ads working in about a week, but a simple pref change turned that off.
And then if you do get a foot into one of the better winamp TV streams, there's still lag issues. The internet isn't quite ready for DIY streaming video stations, otherwise I would be running one for fun.
You mean the world doesn't want to hear about the latest dress you got, or your personal problems with your boyfriend/girlfriend?
That's what's great about bloggers. Unknowingly, your significant other, or some complete stranger could be revealing humilliating details about you, regardless if it's true or false!
And if it's the livejournal route, the poster will have his/her(typically her) ass kissed about it.
....is more interesting than the main one. At my company when I started 6 years ago, I stumbled upon the Lenna picture, just thinking it was an ordinary pic. Few years later I saw the er, um "full" pictures. Didn't know she had a cult following.
Yes, that Lenna picture I assure you is still in use after all these years. A pretty "hello world" image.
I have to disagree. LivejOurnal is 99% about the individual, and not "community" feel-good vibes. Heck, most of the Ljs out there are friends-only, and if you're not a friend, you don't see anything.
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Same Omni who sublet his condo to Maatnofret? Small world.
I get translucent reminders and stuff in XP already. Am I missing something?
No, it's the usual Slashdot snarkyness towards Microsoft in any article. It is obligatory, and in this case they are now "finally catching up with apple" for some trivial eye candy aspect.
In other articles if MS comes out with something, they will be "copying" someone else, or they will be "finally being compatible with.", and so on. Of course, using the word "finally" would imply there's someone out there waiting in their basement holding their breath for this feature.
Unbuntu:
For some reason IPV4 was non-existant on all 4 Ethernet cards, but ipv6 worked. Tried everything, eventually enlisted the help of 2 friends for a total reinstall. But I had no precious data to backup. Ugh.
What is a link farm? is that one of those sites, no matter what obscure search term you put in, it's always the first site that comes up on google?
Then you visit that site, and find out there is absolutely nothing related to what you are searching for, but just ads for shitty domain hosting, links to links to other links for shopping, etc?
Its simple as that. Its "try before you buy". Don't like it? Return the game. Like it? Write down the name, return it, and go buy a retail copy of it. You can't lose!
:)
There was a system like that, but you had to pay full retail price, but if you didn't like it for any reason, return it for full refund(more like deposit).
The place was called Electronics Botique.
We in the industry call it "Wheatonies". The breakfast of geeks & farkers.
Free Domo Kun, Ackbar, or Mustard man action figure in every box.
There was "Geeks in Space", and IMO, wasn't that good at all. Reviewing stories that were already posted on slashdot, eh, didn't pan out well.
Ever get rooked into going to a website with perpetual Javascript pompts? I love those.
The only way out of them is to kill your browser process outright.
This is a prime opportunity for mozilla developers to do a slight tweak to the prompts. a "kill all javscript for the rest of this session" button, etc.
It seems to have been forgotten, or deferred.
I saw some preview of the game in the context of the controversy.
Seeing it only wanted me to buy the game more, being a long time GTA fan. But, I'm going to wait until the reviews come in. I don't want another Getaway on my hands.
Would you believe I made a horrid typo? I meant to say Gopher instead of Google.
...is this will probably have more program content and be more interesting than G4Techtv.
Just imagine the shows you could syndicate:
Off The Hook - eh, second thought, better not. That show is 99% politics, 1% Emmanuel Goldstein acting like a 21st-century Andy Rooney.
RISKS Digest - now in video form!
The Defaced Web page report - attrition.org's newest show featuring defaced websites for the past week, and what vulnerability caused it
Monday Night Infection - Which Windows worm is spreading faster than the other 'round the world. the battlefield? your computer!
Oh the possibilities could be endless. Or, it would bore ordinary people to death. We may never know.
I can't wait either. I surely don't remember any advertising when I was using Google.
:)
One fundamental problem is, popularity comes at a price. Your website is more popular, more bandwidth gets used. More bandwidth gets used, your hosting provider charges you more.
It's not so with TV shows. The costs are the same whether 8 people or 8 billion people watch it. Of course, if you have consistently low ratings, advertisers don't want to pay you for their ads.
If internet technologies get to the point where bandwidth is maybe at a flat fee(for outbound traffic), or something of the like, perhaps advertising won't be so promiment.
But as it stands now, advertising is getting to the point where it is overshadowing original content. Now only if we had more original content instead of the same AP news stories repeated over and over. Ah crap, I just realized what website i was on.
AOL was a useful service once upon a time, like compuserve and prodigy
Ah yes, Compu$erve, where you were charged by THE HOUR to use their service. I think they had premium services too.
Didn't they also have some networked air combat flight sim many many many years ago, before online multiplayer games were commonplace?
*Sally Struthers walks on*
For just 5 megs a month you can adopt a Chinese blog. You will recieve letters, a digital camera picture and more from your sponsored blog. Your blog will recieve bandwidth, FTP access and encryption...
Just 5 megs a month. Isn't that worth it?
I went through the install menus, fiddled with the partitions, and after a bunch of text screens later, it was alive.
Then I easily got samba installed & running with the package manager. Yay. This failed previously when it was a debian box(none of the d/l sites worked).
Much to my amazement, sound worked! I copied a mp3 file off a windows share(that was effortless) and boom, it was playnig in xmms.
Then I tried to edit the samba config file, but it needed me to be root. Okay, let's just put in the root password I thought i put in(it did ask me for one, right? I guses not), nada. Darn.
Just looking at google's results, looks like I can sudo in, er, or something. Or if someone replies here. I was so used to using root when I was using fedora & debian.
Me likey unbuntu. No bullshit to get things going, and more importantly, first time I ever got sound working in Linux, and I didn't have to do jack.
Mind you, 99% of this server will just end up benig used for samba, but that's good enough for me. I would like to get it to broadcast to a shoutcast DNAS server, but couldn't find any plug-in to do it.
I would be happy if all the features(calendar, various pDA functions) etc were all fleshed-out.
Also, a "podcasts" section not unlike "audiobooks" where the podcasts dont get in the "shuffle songs" lib.
And I want more games.
Maybe it's time to start up a photo business that doesn't care about copyrights.
Honestly, why would a photographer want copyrights on Ma & Pa Kettle's wedding photos? Is there a release form the couple has to sign off to the photographer for all images of THEM?
Maybe the photographer should be paying them for modeling, with a clause that they(wedding couple) get a copy for framing.
Or pony up the $ and just do it all yourself, have a neighbor kid take the photos and pay them an agreed-upon fee.
If you want to see some older Dr. Who (wobbly scenery and all), then get a BitTorrent client and head on out to The Pirate Bay - there's some episodes floating around there. Be on the lookout for "The Genesis of the Daleks". Tom Baker is widely thought of as the best Doctor of the old series.
I bittorrented Genesis like 3 weeks ago(thanks to whoever ripped it), and it was better than I remembered. It had a very involved plot, a decent budget, and overall yes, one of the best Doctor Who stories ever.
It didn't wrap things up in 5 minutes like the new series, thankfully.
3. Window pane focus changes. This one I just don't understand. In 2k, if I open Windows Explorer in folder view, I can use the scroll wheel to scroll the pane that the mouse is over. In XP, I have to click the pane first to scroll. This probably doesn't affect many people but for those that it does, it is super annoying.
I remember back in Windows 3.1 with the Logitech mouse. You could use the scroll-wheel in ANY place with a scrollbar and it would work. Just like you said, no need to "click to focus". I miss that.
I do notice however in multiple instances of firefox, you can just hover & scroll(no clicking) and it scrolls just fine for you. Maybe it's an app-level quirk now? If so, I wish everyone would do it, but ultimately at an OS level a focus-agnostic scroll would be 100 times better.
Winamp's TV(still in beta IMO) is a miserable failure. 99% of the streams are unavailable. All slots filled, and that's usually stations running bittorrented TV shows.
The remaining 1% is community programming, like you see on the public cable channels nobody watches. Oh, and the porn advertisement streams. They figured out how to get pop-up ads working in about a week, but a simple pref change turned that off.
And then if you do get a foot into one of the better winamp TV streams, there's still lag issues. The internet isn't quite ready for DIY streaming video stations, otherwise I would be running one for fun.
You mean the world doesn't want to hear about the latest dress you got, or your personal problems with your boyfriend/girlfriend?
That's what's great about bloggers. Unknowingly, your significant other, or some complete stranger could be revealing humilliating details about you, regardless if it's true or false!
And if it's the livejournal route, the poster will have his/her(typically her) ass kissed about it.
Yay for character assassination!
My workplace blocked the website, citing malicious software could come onboard.
*sigh*. A digital tv tuner I don't have, being hosted on free web page service in France.
It just simply wasn't meant for me to read this article.
....is more interesting than the main one. At my company when I started 6 years ago, I stumbled upon the Lenna picture, just thinking it was an ordinary pic. Few years later I saw the er, um "full" pictures. Didn't know she had a cult following.
Yes, that Lenna picture I assure you is still in use after all these years. A pretty "hello world" image.
Well, sometimes Pizza Hutt, but I think that's only in Kansas or something.
No, that's on Tattoinne. They were so late on delivering my Han Solo in Carbonie, I will never order from him again.
I have to disagree. LivejOurnal is 99% about the individual, and not "community" feel-good vibes. Heck, most of the Ljs out there are friends-only, and if you're not a friend, you don't see anything.